I tend to hate the bachelor reality shows because a lot of those guys like to claim that lust = love. >=| But I like coming at it from a point of view that he's just sad to see a friend go and he was having so much fun with everyone that he doesn't want anyone to have to leave.

Haha! xD Yeah, men have a tendency to do that, don't they? Push each other around in order to establish dominance. I rather like that idea, actually, but I don't think it would have worked in this kind of dynamic--Jared would have kicked them out. My problem with the female characters were that most of them were my OCs and, therefore, quite a lot were my villains. Unlike the guys where most of them were actual characters (Mike, Tom, Misha, etc) and I don't feel entirely comfortable making them into villains. =)